Ripe tomatoes will be soft but will still have dark green mottling. Transplant 24”-36” apart in full sun near a trellis. Each packet of Black Vernissage tomato seeds contains a minimum of 20 seeds. Provide 7-10 hours of direct light each day. Vernissage Black Tomato 3.99 Vernissage Black Tomato Solanum lycopersicum Ecologically grown Annual Open Pollinated Heirloom Indeterminate type. Start seeds indoors 4-6 weeks before average last frost date. Our seeds this year come from Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery in Maine, who says this about it: This small slicing variety is one of the most striking. Indeterminate, they can be harvested all season long. This tomato is part of our heat tolerant tomato package. The fruits are round, mahogany red striped with green and yellow. Originated in Ukraine, also known as Vernisazh Chernyi. Rich, complex, slightly smokey, tart flavor. Relatively early and productive over a long season. Keep moist plastic cover improves success. To grow Black Vernissage tomatoes, follow these steps: Get healthy and viable seeds. Large, 2 oz, crack resistant cherry tomato with a ridiculously juicy center and striped tie dye red and dark green skin which gives it its “black” appearance. Ukrainian heirloom with striped tie dye, red and dark green skin. How to germinate Black Vernissage tomato seeds: Sow 5 mm deep. It’s also important to know that Black Vernissage tomatoes are grown from open pollination and it will take about 75 days for the first ripe fruit. During a record-breaking summer at Giving Ground Farm, these tomatoes were the first to ripen during 6 weeks of 95+ degrees and produced most heavily. Indeterminate, 70-75 days.75 days, Indeterminate. A very adaptable and easy to grow saladette tomato for more extreme temperatures, cool nights and hot days. IT is a variegated tomato with lovely red, green, and black markings. Deep burgundy and fleshy pink, striped with green. The Black Vernissage Cherry is 75-day indeterminate heirloom tomato. That combination of rich flavor and being particularly meaty, the Vernissage lends itself well to a heavy red sauce where it needs little herbal assistance in creating a fresh, rich flavor.īlack Vernissage Tomato (solanum lycopersicum) originated in the Ukraine. Our seeds this year come from Aaron Parker of Edgewood Nursery in Maine, who says this about it: 'This small slicing variety is one of the most striking. That standout is Black Vernissage, a saladette sized tomato ironically sent to as a free gift with my spring seed order but one I will grow every year hereafter, not only for its deliciousness but for if prolific nature and its ability to make one of the best sauces I’ve ever gotten from any tomato.īlack Vernissage features everything great about both paste tomatoes while also maintaining the best flavor qualities of chocolate and black toms and with a light acidity and nearly no sweetness it has a sort of savory pepperiness en par with the scent of fresh sweet basil. Weve grown this Ukrainian saladette tomato in New Jersey and found it to be delicious, beautiful, and heat tolerant. As a planned segment of Crescent in the Pines is to highlight prized heirloom varieties and other garden selections of note, this beaut seems an obvious choice for the first feature of the Heirloom series. Large, 2 oz, crack resistant cherry tomato with a ridiculously juicy center and striped tie dye red and dark green skin which gives it its black appearance. As with every summer though, a standout has shown through, this one particularly impressive for not only putting on in mass quantities but for doing so under the strenuous conditions of down pours and unseasonable cool turning immediately into drought and heat. A few plants, although stunted, have managed to put on but by no means in the quantities of a more typical season. This has been a year of lamentations on the mass drowning of mine and everyone I knows’ gardens.
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